(a) Wood which has been cut and prepared for use as a building material or for fashioning objects, lumber; also, logs which have been trimmed but not yet cut into planks; (b) the wood of a growing tree; also, fallen logs; (c) a wooden object; also, woodwork, esp. the frame or a structural member of a house, ship, etc.; a beam; a spear shaft;—also coll.; (d) in cpds. & combs.: ~ berere, one who carries a battering ram; ~ bord, a plank; ~ haue, a yard enclosed by a fence or hedge; ~ hous, a building for storing wood; ~ lode, a service by which a tenant is required to carry wood felled in the forest to the lord's house; ~ makere, a preparer of timber; ~ mongere, a seller of timber; ~ ware, woodenware; ~ werk, woodwork; also, coll. beams, structural timbers; ?also, carpentry; ~ wright, a carpenter; neshe ~, soft wood; plough ~, wood for making or repairing plows.

Fig. and in fig. contexts: building material; flesh ~.

In surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.180].